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  • Genre: Alternative / Indie / Rock

    Location Germany, De

    Profile Views: 1034119

    Last Login: 2/6/2012

    Member Since 10/25/2005

    Website www.phillipboa.de

    Record Label Vertigo, Polydor, RCA, Lado, Motor, Rough Trade

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    "One of the most influential continental bands!" (NME) Phillip Boa & the Voodooclub were formed in the western part of germany in 1985 by Phillip and vocalist/keyboardist 'Pia Lund', later joined by percussionist / voodoodrummer 'The Voodoo' (all 3 had just entered university where they met ) and drummer / programmer 'Der Rabe'. They released their first album 'Philister' in the same year on their own Constrictor label and received excellent reviews in their home-country, where it soon topped the indie-charts. In 1986 Rough Trade (Germany) director Heino Drecker helped to sign the band to english indie label Red Flame, who re-released the album across europe. Several singles of that album gained 'single of the week' status in NME, Sounds and Melody Maker and so did the whole album itself. The british press described their style as a form of pop avantgarde: strange music, often beautiful and pop/rock, but noisy and angst ridden with ironical / cynical lyrics full of great, different metaphors and twistssome early critic called it a collision between B 52's / Talking Heads, the german feel of Can with the wisdom and cynical approach of The Fall. Phillip's main influences were also Joy Division, Velvet Underground, XTC, Magazine, Wire etc. In 1987, encouraged by the reaction, the band decided to rehearse and play their first concerts in Germany, England, the Netherlands, Scandinavia etc. Later that year they met german producer legend Conny Plank (Kraftwerk, Can, DAF) who's been a fan since the band's first album. Sadly Conny could not fullfill his commitment because of health reasons (he passed away 2 years later), however he had recommended a replacement in a former student of his, Eroc. Slightly mad ex Krautrock figure Eroc recorded the second album 'Aristocracie', released also on Red Flame, receiving brilliant reviews, single and album of the week in NME etc. Phillip Boa & the Voodooclub still remain the German band with the most "Album and Single of the Week's" in the British music press ever (8 x "Single of the Week" and 5 x "Album of the Week" reviews in NME, Melody Maker and Sounds). The band toured indie clubs across europe and got signed by a major-label, Polydor in Hamburg. This move triggered a backlash for Phillip as he was at first called a traitor for doing this (Phillip was a symbolic figure of the 'never sell out' indie ideology). Through the years, Phillip Boa & the Voodooclub were special guest of the great John Lydon's band P.I.L., played smaller alternative-festivals with, just to name a few, Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, Björk, The Fall, Residents, Gun Club, Iggy Pop or Manic Street Preachers. And big festivals such as Roskilde, sharing the same stage with people like David Bowie or Bob Dylan. Phillip did collaborations with magnificent metal-people like Dave Lombardo from Slayer or Chuck Schuldiner from Death and Mille from Kreator. Furthermore the Voodooclub has been remixed by acclaimed electronic gurus like Aphex Twin, The Notwist, Zombie Nation, Locust, LFO, Schneider TM etc. Anyway up until today, Phillip still keeps his 'never sell out' indie ideology alive and well refusing to appear on tv, rejecting advertising / sponsoring even in 2008, were this practice is wide spread amongst a lot of bands. Phillip however was aware of the negative impact the 'signing to a major' would have on his international career he released several albums on Polydor in the later 80's til 1997, 'Copperfield' and 'Hair', 'Helios' and 'Boaphenia' receiving great reviews. 'Container Love' from the album 'Hair' was a minor hit in some European countries and, together with ''Kill your Ideals', 'Fine art in Silver', 'This is Michael', 'And then she kissed her' and 'Love on Sale', still is the band's most popular song. Phillip decided to 'stop' his international career, well aware of the fact that he would never receive that credibility and praise of the leading, influential journalists for longer than 3 albums. He stopped touring outside of germany from 1991 on and did his best to make sure he did not releases his albums outside of his home country. Nowadays via Amazon or I-Tunes a lot of Boa's stuff is available internationally. However his ever loyal hardcore fans inside and outside of germany guarantee him concerts and releases that are always somehow doing well enough; Boa nowadays is still very well-respected, almost lost non of his credibility and, yes, he never ever sold out!!! Since the beginning of his career international producers (John Leckie, Bowie-producer Tony Visconti-currently working with the great Morrissey and loads of others) liked to work with Phillip Boa & the Voodooclub; in the recent years he worked, for example with Gareth Jones (Interpol) and with Strokes-producer Gordon Raphael on an album called 'Decadence & Isolation' (yes, Phillip knows that the album-title is uncool but he doesn't care). This unique approach to music making is again visible in the latest Voodooclub creation, 'Faking to blend in' album released on the 03/08/07. On this latest outing one not only sees the return of 'Der Rabe', one time original drummer of the Voodoclub as co-producer but also a 'rising star' of the Berlin / Kreuzberg underground scene, Tobias Siebert as producer. This is a definitive return to old form for Boa. The album is packed with a collection of great songs with infectious melodies wrapped in a warm but spiky blanket of "beautiful noise", not far from the best work of the ever influential CAN, "maestros" of the avant-garde scene. Complex yet romantic musical and lyrical structures flow effortlessly throughout the whole album that one can clearly savour with the first listen but at the same time discover further intriguing arrangements rooted deep into the compositions with repeated plays. After Phillip ended his business-relationship with the record-label Motor, he wasn't sure what to do in the future. It didn't take him long to decide. Now signed to Rough Trade Distr./Germany, Boa finished writing a new album at Temple studios (Malta) - once more returning to the ideology of the former described avantgarde/popmelody - clash. Phillip took on an idea of the late producer Conny Plank: to work with the genius drummer Jaki Liebezeit of CAN. Together with producer Tobias Siebert, Phillip and Jaki met up in Berlin to record drums and percussion for the new album (released February 13/2009). Very interesting recording sessions took place: Boa, Tobias and Jaki (once called the 'best drummer in the world' by NME), – trying to achieve a common purpose: discover new aspects within the structures of pop/rock music. As a result of this cooperation the music sounds more spacious, cinematic and yet intense with the typical Boa Songwriter-qualities and the Voodooclub individual style. They unfold: with the unusual but yet groovy Jaki-stamp on it. Mixing of the album was finished in December 2008 in Berlin. The album was released in Germany via Rough Trade Distr. / Export and iTunes worldwide and received very positive media response. Five very special shows were played in October 2009 with Jaki, who usually refuses to play to songstructures. After a first nervous show in Hamburg the experiment turned out to be brilliant and Jaki and Phillip were so happy that they did not exclude to repeat that live concept in the future. As the whole outlook for the Voodooclub is concerned: the future is unwritten - but, talking to Boa, an end of the "career" is not planned for the near future. He seems too be too addicted to the habit of writing weird but beautiful indie/pop/rock/avantgarde-whatever music. A livealbum will be released more or less as a Fan Edition, available via the official Phillip Boa shop, in July 2010. It will feature Jaki Liebezeit's drumming on 5 of the songs and is not reproduced, overdubbed etc. only authentic 1:1 recording mixed in Malta in the spring of 2010. Meanwhile Phillip started writing new material and decided to keep the year concert-free with the exception of a few best of shows in Sept./Oct., where a good selection of singles and great songs of Boa's catalogue will be presented. Spring 2011: the Boa albums HELIOS and BOAPHENIA are released as re-mastered edition (with unreleased songs and better sound). There will be unique live concerts at which the Voodooclub will respectively play the first 11 songs of the 2 albums. Autumn 2011: The band will continue touring Helios+Boaphenia, Phillip is working on new material. In the past the Voodooclub played, amongst loads of Rockfestivals, the Frank Zappa Festival, a World Music Festival and in 2011 the Kurt Weill Festival. Weird? No. It is the Voodooclub. Please help talking Phillip into playing festivals again!!

  • Members

    Album "Diamonds Fall"-Line-Up: Phillip Boa, Pia Lunda, Tobias Siebert, Jaki Liebezeit Live Line-Up: Boa, Lunda, Toett, Moses Pellberg, Maik T., Oli Klemm Guest: Jaki Liebezeit

  • Influences

    Arnold Schönberg, Karl Heinz Stockhausen, The Beatles, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, T.Rex, Leonard Cohen, van Morrison, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Can, Faust, Kraftwerk, Sex Pistols, John Lydon, The Clash, The Jam + Paul Weller, Buzzcocks, The Ruts, Cock Sparrer, Gang of Four, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Sparks, Joy Division, New Order, The Cure, Japan, David Sylvian, XTC, Magazine, Wire, The Fall, New Model Army, Julian Cope, Suicide, Elvis Costello, DAF, Abwärts, Fehlfarben, Palais Schaumburg, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, The Smiths/ Morrissey, Einstürzende Neubauten, The B 52's, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Punishment of Luxury, This Heat, Cabaret Voltaire, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Ultravox with John Foxx, The Specials, T.V.Personalities, Jowe Head, The Membranes/John Robb, Lydia Lunch, Voodoo Music, Talking Heads, Sonic Youth, Sly & Robbie, Grace Jones, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Primal Scream, Pixies, Cocteau Twins, Die Form, Massive Attack, Manic Street Preachers, Blur, The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Les Rita Mitsouko, Nirvana, P. J. Harvey, Oasis, Bohren & der Club of Gore, The Notwist, Tocotronic, The Aphex Twin, The Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, , Kasabian, The National, Santogold, The Dresden Dolls Glasvegas, The Horrors, the Vaccines .......... Producers: Phil Spector, Tony Visconti, Conny Plank, Eroc, Craig Leon, Tony Tavener, David Vella ... and many many many more ... writers : Anthony Burgess, Thomas Pynchon, Thomas Mann, Gore Vidal, Ford Madox Ford, Graham Greene, D.Foster Wallace ..... Adorno .......painter: Victor Pasmore ...

  • Sounds Like

    ... THE VOODOOCLUB!

OUT NOW: Re-Mastered 2011

HELIOS 2011 (Re-Mastered)
Re-Mastered and Re-Packaged for
the 21st Century & loaded with extras
incl. unreleased songs & bonus tracks
OUT NOW!
at local record stores, Amazon or BOA Shop
18 Track Digipak » Amazon » BOA Shop
Download » Musicload » Amazon MP3
» iTunes		 BOAPHENIA 2011 (Re-Mastered)
Re-Mastered and Re-Packaged for
the 21st Century & loaded with extras
incl. unreleased songs & bonus tracks
OUT NOW!
at local record stores, Amazon or BOA Shop
18 Track Digipak » Amazon » BOA Shop
Download » Musicload » Amazon MP3
» iTunes

Official Mailorder & Online Shop



Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub / official mailorder & online shop
zipped sweater, polo & jersey shirts, t-shirts & girlies, longsleeves &
hoodies, accessoires, buttons, collectables, cd, vinyl & more

» http://shop.phillipboa.de

Helios & Boaphenia Re-Mastered

Diamonds Fall



DIAMONDS FALL


The critically acclaimed studio album as Mediabook CD & Double Vinyl LP
incl. the singles 'Jane Wyman', 'Diamonds Fall', 'Valerian' and 'Lord Have Mercy With The 1-Eyed' + 'Black Light' and 7 other great songs!

"... a masterpiece!" (MTV)
"... an excellent album!" (Intro)
"... an absolutely great and convincing album!" (Spiegel)
"... Boa never did sound more intelligent and reduced to the essence of songwriting!" (Laut)

» Mediabook CD
» Double Vinyl LP
» iTunes
» Musicload
» Amazon MP3




Live! Exile on Strait Street



LIVE! EXILE ON STRAIT STREET


17 Track Digipak Live Album
1:1 Authentic Live Recording
No overdubs in the studio, just mixing
Recorded in Duesseldorf, Berlin, Zwickau and Leipzig
Only available via the official Boa shop

» Order CD Digipak



Infos & Links

Band members: Phillip Boa, Pia Lund, Toett, Moses, Maik T., Oliver Klemm

Companies: Vertigo / Polydor / RCA / Lado / Motor / Rough Trade /
Constrictor / Universal Music (back catalogue)

Publisher: Film Noir

Management: Paula Smith for Constrictor, Micha Boastuff
» Contact » Booking » Press

Official website: » phillipboa.de » phillipboa.com

Official store, mailorder & onlineshop: » shop.phillipboa.de..

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  • * Kati * Member of …

    Danke  an Phillip ,Pia und den besten Club für 4 wundervolle Konzerte, bei denen ich 2011 dabei sein durfte! Jedes Konzert hat seine eigene Atmosphäre und Wuppertal war für mich ganz besonders himmlisch :)
    Wünsche Euch von Herzen ein glückliches neues Jahr ,Gesundheit und viele schöne Stunden.
    Liebe Grüsse Kati

    1 month ago
  • Andrea

    Thank you for the friendship !
    Have a great week !
    Andrea :) 

    1 month ago
  • November Groth

    See you in Stuttgart
    Love you
    November x

    4 months ago
  • VENUS BOGARDUS

    Hi Phillip, I'd like to invite you to check out my novel I, JUDAS published by Soft Skull Press (Oct 11; ISBN: 978-1593764210) available for pre-orders from Amazon, IndieLit etc. Best regards, James Reich

    5 months ago
  • * Kati * Member of …

    Hallo Phillip,
    die ersten Plakate hängen nun schon in Wupertal aus. Was für eine ganz besondere Freude!!! (konnte mir es nicht verkneifen einmal laut aufzuschreien JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA,als ich im Auto fahrend Diamonds Fall hörend das erste Plakat erblickte/sass allein im Auto, Fenster heruntergekurbelt und neben mir an der Ampel grinsende Gesichter ;) )
    Nur fällt es mir doch arg schwer mich in Geduld zu üben.November scheint mir noch etwas weit weg zu sein... Gibts denn da nicht noch ne Möglichkeit für ein kleines sponti Sommer-Special Konzert in NRW???

    Liebe Grüsse und einen schönen Spätsommer
    Kati :)

    6 months ago
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Shows & Events

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HELIOS 2011 (Re-Mastered)

HELIOS 2011 (Re-Mastered)

Re-Mastered and Re-Packaged for
the 21st Century & loaded with extras
incl. unreleased songs & bonus tracks

OUT NOW!
at local record stores or Amazon
18 Track Digipak » Order Amazon
Download » Musicload » Amazon MP3
» iTunes

BOAPHENIA 2011 (Re-Mastered)

BOAPHENIA 2011 (Re-Mastered)

Re-Mastered and Re-Packaged for
the 21st Century & loaded with extras
incl. unreleased songs & bonus tracks

OUT NOW!
at local record stores or Amazon
18 Track Digipak » Order Amazon
Download » Musicload » Amazon MP3
» iTunes

Discography


Diamonds Fall (2009)
» Amazon » iTunes


Faking To Blend In (2007)
» Amazon » iTunes


Decadence & Isolation (2005)
» Amazon » iTunes


C 90 (2003)
» Amazon » iTunes


The Red (2001)
» Amazon » iTunes


My Private War (2000)
» Amazon » iTunes


Lord Garbage (1998)
» Amazon » iTunes


She (1996)
» Amazon » iTunes


God (1994)
» Amazon » iTunes


Boaphenia (1993) + Re-Mastered (2011)
» Amazon » iTunes


Helios (1991) + Re-Mastered (2011)
» Amazon » iTunes


Hispañola (1990) + Re-Mastered (2006)
» Amazon » iTunes


Hair (1989) + Re-Mastered (2006)
» Amazon » iTunes


Copperfield (1988) + Re-Mastered (2006)
» Amazon » iTunes


Aristocracie (1986) + Re-Mastered (1997)
» Amazon » iTunes


Philister (1985) + Re-Mastered (2011)
» Amazon » iTunes

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